A hard drive that is Ultra ATA 100 has a burst transfer rate of 100MB per second, in one burst, not all the time. Therefore a burst rate is a one time transfer rate of speed or one session, which is similar to a cable provider claiming 20 megabytes per second, download speeds, when the actual sustainaible rate, is far less.
I do mean an external hard drive.
Transfer the files to a memory card in the phone (if it has that capability) or plug in the data cable, transfer the files to the hard drive, then burn to a cd or dvd. I'm not sure what you mean by a "portable disc"...
What do you mean by copy. if you mean copy from a flash drive to a hard drive you just go into the system settings then storage. If you mean like getting it free then look into emulators or license transfer. A emulator can be jtag/xk3y/ or similar
Main Hard Drive
Whenever hard dRIVE is used, it blinks. It shows running of hard drive.
Hard Disk Drive
The cache size is refers to the size of buffer on the hard drive. The bigger the the buffer, the less the hard drive has to access the drive. Also it improves the time that the computer needs to access data from the drive.
Of course, copy all your programs and files you need from the old hard drive and put it on your new hard drive BEFORE formatting the old hard drive. Formatting your hard drive will mean losing everything and a slim chance of getting it all back.
Installing the program to your hard drive
If you mean transferring the data of one hard drive to another, there are easy to use USB cables that you simply connect to both computers and follow some instructions.
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment Not sure in which context you mean but the normal meaning of SATA is Serial ATA which is the type of transfer architeture inside the PC from the motherboard to the Hard drive. It is a newer faster information transfer type which will make PC run faster and transfer information internally faster in the future.
I'm not sure what you mean by hard drive history, but if you mean recently used programs, documents etc then you can use a tool called CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/)